Hamilton Beach Cordless Half Pint Soft-Serve Ice Cream Maker

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GHRI RATING:

3.6

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Pros

Excels at making sorbet

Easy to assemble and use

Relatively quiet

Some parts can be washed in the dishwasher

Thorough manual with some recipes for ice cream and other frozen treats

Excellent customer service

Cons

Canister requires pre-freezing

Ice cream is not perfectly smooth

The Hamilton Beach Cordless Half-Pint is battery-powered, so it's perfect for your next cookout or backyard barbecue

For an afternoon treat for the kids, you cant beat this cute, pistachio-colored ice cream maker. The Hamilton Beach Cordless Half-Pint is battery-powered too, so it's perfect for your next cookout or backyard barbecue. It didn't make the very best vanilla ice cream in our tests, but fruit sorbet came out great. While you have to keep an eye on it as it churns, and it only makes a couple servings at a time, we still love this machine for its novelty factor, if nothing else. It's a great pick for a fun, portable ice cream maker.

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